Tag: Evgeny Svetlanov
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Myaskovsky: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. 6 – Symphony No. 6 – Svetlanov
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Myaskovsky: Complete Symphonies – Svetlanov
“The complete legendary set, very well-filled discs, BUT using the Olympia masters, plus their ground-breaking expert music notes within 36PP book !”
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Myaskovsky: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. 7 – Symphonies Nos. 7 and 26 – Svetlanov
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Myaskovsky: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. 8 – Symphonies Nos. 8 and 10 – Svetlanov
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Myaskovsky: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. 1 – Symphonies Nos. 1 and 25
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Myaskovsky: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. 3 – Symphonies Nos. 3 and 13
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Myaskovsky: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. 2 – Symphonies Nos. 2 and 18
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Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1; Isle of the Dead – Evgeny Svetlanov, USSR Symphony Orchestra
“Svetlanov’s volcanic 1966 recording … heartbreakingly intense yet grippingly coherent conception, brimful of insight and flair … shoots off like a rocket … finale enshrines as adrenalin-fuelled a ride to the abyss as you will ever hear … the pathos of the symphony’s Largo has to be heard to be believed (decibel levels defeated plucky Soviet…
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Rachmaninov: Complete Orchestral Works
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Rimsky Korsakov: Suites & Overtures
“..excellent performances of some captivatingly colourful music. (Russian Easter Festival) splendidly exuberant playing from players who naturally have the stuff of the music in their bones…marvellous gravity and resonance. …(Dubinushka) only a trifle, but quite a rare one. Rimsky-Korsakov heard the song during the 1905 “revolution” – both his liberal instincts and his musical invention…
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Glinka Overtures & Dances
“An eminently recommendable survey of Glinka’s orchestral output … playing of the USSR Symphony is expert and idiomatic” (Penguin Guide) “firm and lively as one would expect from Svetlanov and a Russian orchestra very much on home ground. The recordings do full justice to Glinka’s beautiful scoring. An enjoyable record, not to by missed by…
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Sergei Rachmaninov: The Bells
“always something special about a Russian performance. The slavonic fervour and natural intensity of the singing, both solo and choral, give a gripping added immediacy here to The Bells … an added edge is the inclusion of the stirring cantata called Spring: an immediately attractive piece quite superbly sung by its baritone soloist, Sergei Yakovenko…
